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1. 1. [PHAC-0] COVID-19 vaccination in Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada:
      https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccination-coverage/ (Figure 1) 
      
      

   2. [PHAC-1] 'COVID-19 Daily Epidemiology Update', Public Health Agency of Canada  (Updated weekly):
      After June 2022: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/ (contains Archives since June 2022)
      From August 2021 to May 2022: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html  (Archive of past reports: web.archive.org)

      • Cases following vaccination (Figure 5 & Table 2).

      • Severe illness and outcomes - Variation by Age (Figure 7)
        
        

2. [PHAC-2] Reported side effects following COVID-19 vaccination in Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada:
   https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/  (Updated weekly).
   Archive of past reports: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/archive/​​​​​​

   2. • Figure 1. Weekly number of reports of COVID-19 vaccine adverse event reports 

      • Figure 3.  Number   of adverse event reports by age group   

      • Table 1. Count of reported adverse events of special interest
        
        

3. [StatCan-1] Provisional weekly death counts, by selected grouped causes of death  (Updated monthly):  https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310081001 

   2. • Interactive Open Canada Deaths Tracker (Web App)
        
        

4. [StatCan-2] Provisional weekly death counts, by age group and sex  (Updated monthly):  https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310076801

Googlesheet that tracks data from these sources is here.

These terms are tracked in Googlesheet  here.

Definitions used in [PHAC-0]

• Cumulative number of people who have received at least 1 dose

• Cumulative number of partially vaccinated people

• Cumulative number of fully vaccinated people

• Cumulative number of fully vaccinated people with an additional dose
  
  

Definitions used in [PHAC-1]  (Table 2 - Definitions)

PHAC monitors cases following vaccination using the following categories:

• 0 dose =
  Unvaccinated cases: include those who were unvaccinated at the time of their episode date.

• 1 dose <14 days =
  Cases not yet protected from vaccination include those whose episode date occurred less than 14 days after their first dose of the vaccine.

• 1 dose 14+ & 2 doses <14 days =
  Partially vaccinated cases include those whose episode date occurred 14 days or more after their first vaccine dose or less than 14 days after their second dose of the vaccine.

• (either 2 doses or  1 J&J dose) 14+ days,  or 3 doses (+) <14 days   =
  Fully vaccinated cases include those whose episode date occurred 14 days or more after receipt of a second dose in a two-dose series or 14 days or more after receipt of one dose of a one-dose vaccine series,, and, if an additional (i.e., third or booster) dose was received, 0 to <14 days after receipt of the additional dose.

• 3+ doses 14+ days =
  Fully vaccinated cases with an additional dose include those whose episode date occurred 14 days or more following the receipt of at least one additional dose (e.g., third or booster) of a COVID-19 vaccine product, after being fully vaccinated.

Note: A COVID-19 vaccine product includes vaccines authorized by Health Canada and vaccines accepted by the Government of Canada for the purpose of travel to and within Canada.

Excess deaths

• There are more total and excess deaths after vaccination than before vaccination - especially among young people (0 to 44). Read more.

• Statistics Canada  has removed the data related to  the spike of deaths after vaccination among young people (0 to 44)  in New Brunswick. Read more.

Vaccine efficacy

• Data show that vaccines reduce COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths with COVID-19.  The efficacy of each vaccine dose however diminished over time, and they may cause severe side-effects, including deaths.  Read more.

• No significant reduction is observed since December 2021 ('Significant' refers to least by a factor of ten)

• Since April 2022, people with one dose have the least count of Cases. Read more.

• Since August 2021, percentage of  fully vaccinated in the weekly count of COVID-19 cases  has been increasing faster than the vaccination rate, more than double by January 2022.

• Algorithmic bias is embedded in calculation of reported percentages of fully vaccinated in COVID-19 cases that skews the results in favour of fully vaccinated. Read more.

• As provinces switched to using the new "protected" category, "Fully vaccinated" with 2 doses are now "unprotected", unless they take another shot. Read more.

• Individuals dying within 2 weeks of vaccination are not counted as vaccinated. Read more.

Vaccine side effects

• Vaccine side-effects are reported with several months delay.  

• Some people complained that they were not able to report vaccine side-effect. It is not known how many side-effects are not reported. Read more.

• Children (under 18) are most disadvantaged  by vaccine. Read more.

Other:

• Data from US CDC and other official sources showed that "natural immunity" provides better protection than vaccine-induced immunity.  

• By March 2022, over 75% of Canadians are estimated to have  "natural immunity" - either combined with  vaccine-induced immunity or without it. 90% of children in Canada are estimated to have  "natural immunity" after Omicron wave. Read more

• The terms "natural immunity" , "herd immunity" are publicized in countries that have removed all pandemic restrictions, such as UK, Denmark, and other countries in EU. These terms however are mentioned in official reports in Canada.

• No reports on the efficacy and safety of vaccines were produced by the Office of the Chief Scientific Advisor of Canada after July 2021, which is when post-marketing data related to vaccine efficacy have become available in Canada. Read more

Notes:

1. The Main Dashboard (shown below on this page) is no longer updated - Go to other Dashboards for more updated statistics. 

2. Every effort possible is made to reduce the chance of error in reproducing the statistics copied from the official sources. At minimum, two reviewers always validate all entered data and formulas. Nevertheless, some errors, although of minor significance, may still be present (such using different averaging windows for different dates or metrics). 

3. Some Dashboards are generated from this Googlesheet. If your organization blocks access to Google Documents, you will see the "cloud" icon instead of interactive charts in those dashboards. Screenshots from this dashboards are included.

4. Adverse events and COVID cases statistics are reported on different dates and with different granularity and reporting delays. Hence they are rounded to the closest month, when the comparisons between these statistics are made.

5. Note that some graphs use Logarithmic (i.e. by factor of) scale

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